Chapter 13: Mother's Salvation

Xu Dong's father, Lao Xu, was transferred from another village to Tuweizi as secretary, and Hongzhi formed a team with him, because Lao Xu was old and in poor health, he basically did not participate in labor, it was Hongzhi who took everyone to do it, what is Hongzhi to say hello to Lao Xu, and Lao Xu also let Hongzhi do it. After Wu Wei came, because of his practical spirit, he was an old household here, had a deep relationship, and took the initiative to return to his hometown, and he was cultivated as a seedling by Lao Xu and Hongzhi, Xu Dong had no opinions, and Wu Wei had the opportunity to often participate in the commune cadre meetings. An incident happened in Tunli near the end of the year. After the self-produced wheat was processed into white flour, Hongzhi and Lao Xu discussed and discussed, but they did not dare to divide it, for fear of causing conflicts, and the plan in their hearts was that two people should be the leaders of the more points, but they did not dare to put it forward, and no one proposed according to their thoughts. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, good things are difficult to do, and there is a stalemate, Wu Wei and Xu Dong discussed a simple distribution plan, one labor per person, and half of each family member, and asked for the opinions of the leaders, they are not easy to say, I didn't expect everyone to support it very much, and it didn't take half a day to divide it, and everyone happily had a good year. Hongzhi was originally a man with brains and a doer, but he was a little too selfish. Through this incident, Wu Wei's prestige was further enhanced. It was at this time that Wu Wei said goodbye without saying goodbye, which immediately caused an uproar.

Wu Wei is experiencing a spiritual crisis, the initial frenzy gradually cooled down, and then the mental annoyance hit like a wave, relying on passion to persist for a while, and then resurrection and overcome, and finally realized that it is difficult to rely on strengthening the ideological foundation for a long time. The material life in Tuweizi is too hard, and he lives alone, and the burden of life and hard labor are like a mountain in Wu Wei's heart. In the summer, I have to get up at three o'clock in the morning to cook and bring out the noon, go to work at two o'clock after eating, and come back at seven o'clock in the evening to cook, and I have to worry about studying. Ideologically, we must also oppose selfish distractions, but we have to cherish the meager benefits obtained by hard work. Insisting on learning to write articles had no effect, and gradually the idea of not being able to do it was born, and at that time, I took a high-profile way back to my hometown, and I had the intention of retiring in less than half a year, and fell into the embarrassing situation of wanting to retreat and difficult to retreat. Ideologically, he once strongly opposed the concept of the small producer, who was psychologically despised and disgusted, but in real life, he was deeply trapped in it and could not extricate himself. The reality is becoming more and more intense that this road is impassable, and they realize that if they continue to do so in the long run, they will not succeed in transforming the rural areas, but they will be in danger of being transformed by the rural areas. The inner struggle began to become more and more acute and fierce, and the fierce confrontation between shaking and shaking was constantly occurring. In the confrontation between retreat and non-retreat, it is extremely important to be able to emerge a decisive active concept. One day, it suddenly occurred to me that the efforts to stand in the quagmire to remove the sludge were doomed to be futile, and wouldn't it be easy to jump out of the quagmire?

Wu Wei had a scab on the back of his hand, and he had the association that a mother monkey could naturally give birth to a baby monkey. A scab is a scab that grows out of a person's flesh. If it grows a female squire, if it is not removed in time, it will give birth to many small scabs, causing more trouble, just like the hairs on the back of Sun Wukong's head, which can become countless little scabs. In life, if one or more basic shortcomings are not removed, many small shortcomings will also develop. The physical malaise can be removed, and the shortcomings and problems of life can of course be cured, especially when the mother is found, it is better to start healing as soon as possible. If the physical mother and child are present and preserved, there will be no disease and no terrible cancer, at most it will be unsightly, and for the elderly, it will no longer affect anything, and it can be heard and recognized. For young people, this is not the case with the spiritual existence of the mother's child, which may multiply into lesions or even cancer.

Wu Wei's rational thinking finally gained the upper hand and shook the foundation of action. Several attempts to write about the backdoor have failed. Thinking in opposition to the chosen path, the inner question arises: Is there a need to change the path? Does rural life tie your hands and feet, and even if you don't, does it limit your horizons? However, I live a good life, and I go to live in a bad place. A minimum of living conditions should be the basis of struggle.

Wu Wei was experiencing mental pain in Tuweizi, but he couldn't find a suitable way out and endured it there alone. Every time she returned to her home in Riverside Town, Gui Fang loved him very much, cooking him as many delicious meals as she could, and occasionally gossiping to him about what she heard. Originally, the house he lived in Tuweizi, it was Hongzhi who talked to Xiaoma, Xiaoma welcomed, Xiaoma always drove the carriage to run out and pull his feet, and sometimes went back to live for two days, but then returned to his hut to live there without relatives and people It feels like it's not a good feeling, and I heard that his favorite sister Mei Yuan has the heart to be good with Wu Wei, Mei Yuan's mother and several relatives agree very much, and Pony rejects Wu Wei even more emotionally. Gui Fang said to Wu Wei because he didn't want to go back. This is a very real problem for Wu Wei, he can't always occupy other people's houses without face and skin. Gui Fang is a very scheming person, she is just an ordinary housewife, but she can speak well, go from the west to the east, talk about everything, and it is easy to mingle with the people around her.

Wu Wei's family lived in the center of the town, and the commune leaders' homes lived in those rows of houses, and Gui Fang often chatted with the families of those cadres. After the Spring Festival, Wu Wei rushed back to Tuweizi to work, Gui Fang was anxious this time, and went to Director Fan's house in the commune to tell Wu Wei about his work, Director Fan heard that Wu Wei was cooking by himself in Tuweizi, and was very sympathetic, and immediately said that the post office was looking for him to ask for someone urgently, and the director often worked as a postman, so he simply recruited the child back to do it first. Director Fan came to work the next morning and found the director of the post office, you are in a hurry to ask for someone, there is a young man working in Tuweizi, life is very hard, and he cooks by himself, his mother told me, you go and bring him back as a postman, I will say hello to Tuweizi.

The director was an anxious man, and he was also in a hurry to find someone to replace him, and rode his bicycle to Tuweizi with the distributed mail, and when he got there, he found out where Wu Wei lived, and when he opened the door, he saw that Wu Wei was busy cooking in the small outhouse, and the room was hot, and he was busy pasting a circle of big cakes on top of the stew in the pot. The director didn't enter the house, and when Wu Wei put on the lid and walked out of the door, he talked to him outside, I am from the commune's post office, and as soon as I got to work this morning, I was approached by Director Fan of the commune to tell me about your situation, and he asked me to come to you. Wu Wei didn't expect things to come so quickly, so he asked, when will you go to work? The director said, come with me now, lead you to recognize the road, familiarize yourself with the procedures for handling mail, and you will run this line from tomorrow. Wu Wei said, I will say hello to the leader. The leader looked anxious and said, it's too late, it's almost 10 o'clock now, you will run this line every day in the future, and you will talk about it alone tomorrow. Wu Wei hesitated again and again, embarrassed, always felt that he left without saying hello, it was too hurtful to hurt people's feelings, he came in a high-profile manner, people were full of enthusiasm to accept themselves and cultivate themselves, it was really a little unbearable, after all, he was a person here, despite the above leader speaking, he still felt good to say hello, and hesitated to look at the direction of Hongzhi's house in Tunli. The director saw that his mind was in a hurry to urge, and Wu Wei also thought that he would be led by others in the future, so he had to stop, and he didn't have time to think about anything else. At this time, the director said again, Director Fan said, he will tell them. Wu Wei thought to himself that since the leaders above would directly talk to Lao Xu Hongzhi, it would be easier to do what they said, and after hearing this, he seemed to have a bottom in his heart. The director also didn't think about it and said, it's not too early, let's hurry first, and wait for tomorrow when you talk about it yourself. Although Wu Wei was embarrassed, he listened to the new leader's insistence on leaving, so he had no choice but to do so, even though the meal was ready, he couldn't take care of eating, extinguished the fire in the stove pit, locked the door and followed.

Wu Wei rushed home in the afternoon, and when Gui Fang saw him, he asked, "Did you come back with someone from the post office?" Wu Wei responded, and Gui Fang then asked, how did you tell others? Wu Wei was busy and didn't have time to meet the leader. Gui Fang listened to the reproach and said, how can you not greet and fight when you leave Tuweizi, you have done it for nothing in vain, and you don't understand this etiquette when you grow so big? Wu Wei said, Mom, don't be angry first. told the reason for the incident, and Gui Fang heard that it was not her son's fault.

It is said that Tuweizi Hongzhi heard that Wu Wei followed the director of the post office and left directly, and immediately became angry, and asked Lao Xu to say that he must take this breath, saying that Wu Wei came back here like a vow from the mountains and seas at that time, and wanted to change the backward appearance of the countryside, and we did welcome him, and cultivated him as a seedling, and immediately prepared to let him be the captain of the militia, we did not object to him leaving, but he didn't even say hello, he was too inhuman, he was an authentic political liar, we had to find the commune to say, let the commune return.

Wu Wei followed the director here, and Hongzhi went to the commune to strongly demand that the people be returned. When Director Fan heard this, he just said, I heard that the kid is cooking by himself there, it's too hard, even if he is not sensible, you must forgive his suffering. As for saying that he is a political liar and a political reptile, young people are enthusiastic and hot-brained these days, and he can do anything, besides, he has not done anything else, isn't it quite admitted? We have cultivated him as a seedling, and we have let him attend the commune cadre meetings regularly in less than half a year, and we let him go back to the meaning that we also want to train him well, and we plan to let him join the party first and then be promoted to be the captain of the militia. Director Fan laughed when he heard this, if you say so, this kid can do well anywhere, but life in your place is too hard. In this case, you go back first, and when the director of the post office returns, I will come over and find out what is going on. It just so happened that the director had already led Wu Wei to run around and reported to the director when he came back, and Director Fan saw him come in and said happily, it just so happened that you are back, this is the ambition of their Tuweizi, and they are talking about Wu Wei when they are looking for me. As soon as the director heard it, he knew what was going on, so he told in detail about Wu Wei's repeated requests to see the leader at that time, because he was in a hurry and lost his manners, and he said apologetically, Director Fan wants to talk to you about this matter, and I don't think there is any need for me to talk to you. If you want to complain that Wu Wei doesn't understand etiquette, it's better to say me, after all, I went to take people away. Having said that, Hongzhi didn't feel good about saying anything more. The director also explained that Wu Wei plans to go back to you tomorrow to tell you about the situation. When Hongzhi heard this, the fire suddenly disappeared by half, but Wu Wei didn't have any rumors in advance about what he was going to do, and how could he reveal some news to himself, which was too uninteresting. It was not good to say anything else in front of the director, so he said goodbye and left. Later, Wu Liang saw Hongzhi and told the matter.

Because of the sudden departure of Tuweizi caused by the turmoil subsided, Wu Wei felt very free as a postman at first, often half a day to run the line, the work is not difficult, and one after another to see some classmates in the countryside, from time to time to meet for a while, every afternoon to be free, and normal holidays, especially with the opportunity to read newspapers, every day can see all kinds of newspapers, accept some new things, inspired by the trend of the time, accept the enthusiasm of the workers and peasants to be transformed again. Gradually, I thought that the postman was boring, but he came and went by himself, and after just three months of being a postman, he told Gui Fang that he didn't want to do it, thinking of the place where the workers were concentrated, and thinking that the workers were more advanced than the peasants. In the town, there are several enterprises run by the county and even the district, but it is not easy to enter, and it is impossible to go to the "Capital" to talk about the long knowledge of the large machine industry, fortunately Guifang and Secretary Li of the social industry are relatives, and the brick factory that has just started is short of people, so they are placed to work in the brick factory.